The Ants of Africa
Genus Pheidole
Pheidole aeberlii Forel

variolosa-group - head with restricted frontal striations and parallel-sided

{Pheidole aeberlii}

Pheidole aeberlii Forel

Soldier - return to key Minor - return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Senegal (Forel, 1894b: 91, soldier, worker & male) collected in "Upper Senegal"; subspecies erythraea (Emery, 1901e: 61, soldier & worker) from Eritrea (not Ethiopia); soldier, worker and male described (see Bolton, 1995) .

Forel's (1894b) description is at {original description}. Emery's (1901e) description of erythraea is at {original description}.

Wheeler (1922) listed a second Senegal finding at Thiès (F. Silvestri) and noted it from Sudan (Omdurman, I Trägårdh).

Clearly a savannah species.

Santschi (1930a) gave a drawing of the heads of the soldier and worker (right).

{Pheidole aeberlii minor}The photomontage is of a specimen from Ghana, collector Sky Stephens. Other images can be seen in the folder at - {original description}

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